Translator’s note

This page is a translation into English of the following:

Weyl, H. “Repartición de corriente en una red conductora. (Introducción al análisis combinatorio)”. Revista Matematica Hispano-Americana 5 (1923), 153–164.

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The science of the continuous, Analysis situs, has a purely combinatorial part that can now, thanks most of all to the fundamental works of H. Poincaré1, be its own subject of study, and is amenable to a systemic and complete exposition.


  1. Analysis situs, J. de l’École Politech, 1895. Complément à l’Analysis situs, Rend. Palermo, 1899. Second complément à l’Analysis situs, Proc. London Math. Soc., 1900. Cinquième complément à l’Analysis situs, Rend. Palermo, 1904.↩︎